Was planning on waiting until I had a chance to gongfu this. I decided to give up waiting and brewed it western style this morning. It’s quite taste with a sweet fruity note off the bat. This looks and tastes like a black tea, ,not on oolong. The sweet note might be described as plums, perhaps cherries. It hard to pin down. There is little in the way of bitterness or astringency here and I detect no malt.
I brewed this one time in a 16oz teavana glass perfect tea maker/gravity steeper withi 7.2g leaf and 190 degree water for 3 min after a 10 second rinse.
Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C
3 min, 0 sec
7 g
16 OZ / 473 ML
Description should read Higuchi Black Oolong Tea but it doesn’t because sSteepster managed to delete it and I didn’t notice.